Just another bloviating troglodyte

“Baked potato: now that’s refreshment!”

Just a line from a long-cancelled and not-very-good sitcom that’s stuck with me over the years. The speaker was an advertising exec, coming back to a company in order to save it from just that kind of counter-intuitive and ineffective branding.

At the time, I thought: if he was really good, he’d be able to make that stick. To convince America that, yeah, baked potatoes are refreshing.

…nice bit of Orwellian doublethink to call the grass-roots, libertarian-oriented Tea Party “Totalitarian.” This has to be the first “Totalitarian” movement in the history of mankind that, if it gets everything it wants…will leave you the hell alone.

Damn those Tea Partiers, trying to force us to live our lives however we choose!